THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER

by

Mark Twain

Twain, Mark (pen name
of Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)
- American humorist whose
pseudonym was adopted from his days as a Mississippi steamboat pilot, “mark twain” meaning “two fathoms deep.” He introduced colloquial speech into American writing and was the most popular writer of his time.Tom Sawyer (1876) - Recounts the adventures of Tom Sawyer, a boy who could not stay out of trouble, and his friend Huck Finn. Twain wrote three sequels to this classic story of life on the Mississippi River.